“I repeat, I am not leaving here until they demolish this business center,” said writer-publicist, singer, and art critic Vahram Tatikyan to Epress.am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Tatikyan began his hunger strike and sit-in at 12 pm today at the Komitas Pantheon to protest the dolphinarium that is being built at the site. Note that the Komitas Pantheon is where a number of famous Armenian artists and writers are buried. Permission for building the aquarium was granted by Yerevan City Hall.<\/p>\n
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“I’m still human, I’m a realist, my struggle will definitely yield an outcome, they will demolish this building, definitely,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Asked by Epress.am whether anyone from Yerevan City Hall has come to visit him, he said:<\/p>\n
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“Police came by this morning, I recorded them [that is, he wrote down their names], everything was normal: I told them to come, to keep provocateurs away from me. And if they come from city hall, I don’t have anything to say to them. Everything is fine, I feel great, I’m strong, because I have decided that I’m going to go till the end.”<\/p>\n
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Note that a few meters away from where Vahram Tatikyan has stationed himself construction work on the dolphinarium continues. Tatikyan says that su<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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